CAF

CULTURAL ARTS FESTIVAL - 2009

New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina

Art, Cuisine, and Music

Terrance Osborne - Artist
Jazz in the 1920s WebQuest

Print Sources

Hurricane Katrina by Jeannine Ouellette
Feet on the Street Rambles Around New Orleans by Roy Blount Jr.
Use to take notes to update PPP for next year?
Hurricane Katrina Aftermath of Disaster by Barb Palser
Excerpts to review:
Raising Issues of Race p. 77
Timeline p. 86 & 87

Lesson plans

Hurricane Katrina Citizenship Lesson plan from the British Red Cross
Hurricane Katrina Relief Power Generosity and Leadership (Written as a 6-12 unit, adapt as needed for 9-12)
NOW for Educators/PBS - Hurricane Katrina You Be the Reporter
Teaching with Hurricane Katrina - Science and Geology perspective
NYTs - Lesson plan archive on Hurricane Katrina
NYTs Daily Lesson Plan - In the Eye of the Storm Creating News Reports on Major Storms
FRONTLINE - Lesson plans for The Storm
Media Literacy - Hurricane Katrina and Rita and the Media
NYCore - An Unnatural Disaster
Teachers College, Columbia University - Teaching The Levees

Maps/Geography

New Orleans Under water Map and Graphic - Time.com
Includes other amazing slideshows of: After the Deluge, Leaving New Orleans, and Calamity Waiting to Happen
New Orleans Louisiana USA - Google Maps
Continuous Animation of the Flooding of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina - Times-Picayune
Other versions: Floodwater Depth & Interactive Graphic Map
Satellite Map of NOLA

Multimedia

The New Orleans Kid Camera Project
Children of the Storm Hurricane Katrina Through the Eyes of Children Survivors
NOVA/PBS - Storm That Drowned a City
FRONTLINE - The Storm
FRONTLINE - The Old Man and the Storm(2009)
HBO - When the Levees Broke A Requiem in Four Acts
Online Coverage of Hurricane Katrina - Knight Digital Media Center (in affiliation with USC and UC Berkeley)
Children of the Storm - YouTube, Children of the Storm
Children of the Storm - YouTube, Children of the Storm
Student Documentary of Hurricane Rita and Katrina - YouTube
Teen Documentary of Hurricane Katrina - YouTube
National Geographic - New Orleans Hurricane Aftermath Slideshow - 15 HS students from New Orleans return after the storm to document the aftermath with photos and music.
National Geographic - Video Time line Hurricane Katrina - Would not load on 3/27/09
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/08/060823-katrina-video.html
National Geographic - Photo Gallery New Orleans Then and Now - In Katrina's Wake
Right to Return Home New Home Movies from the Lower 9th Ward - Tavis Smiley
The Drive Lower Ninth Ward - YouTube
The Drive Lakeview- YouTube

• to catalog

Hurricane Digital Memory Bank Collecting and Preserving the Stories of Katrina and Rita

Websites

A Citizen Resource to Further Our Understanding of Hurricane Katrina - permission granted to "move" to QuestGarden or another online application
Hurricane Katrina Relief Service Learning Resources and Tools
Hurricane Katrina - Pictures, Charitable Organizations, All About Hurricanes

WebQuests

Rebuild New Orleans WebQuest
In the "Eye" of the Storm -